In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.PessimismQuotations by Daniel Readon
Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Henry Brooks Adams
If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by (Frederick II) Frederick The Great
In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Iris Murdoch
What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?Philosophers and PhilosophyQuotations by Henry David Thoreau
Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject.PhotographyQuotations by Eliot Porter
Pity cost nothing and ain’t worth nothing.PityQuotations by Josh Billings
Perish those who said our good things before we did.PlagiarismQuotations by Donatus
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before.PlagiarismQuotations by Mark Twain
The structure will automatically provide the pattern for the action which follows.PlanningQuotations by Donald Curtis
The loftier the building the deeper the foundation must be.PlanningQuotations by Thomas Kempis
Plan your work for today and every day, then work your plan.PlanningQuotations by Norman Vincent Peale
Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.PlanningQuotations by Source Unknown
Don’t mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.PleasureQuotations by Josh Billings
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.PleasureQuotations by Epictetus
Short lived pleasure is the parent of pain.PleasureQuotations by Proverb
Poetry is the impish attempt to paint the color of the wind.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Maxwell Bodenheim
All one’s inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Gustave Flaubert
A person born with an instinct for poverty.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Elbert Hubbard
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Rainer Maria Rilke
A poem is never finished, only abandoned.Poetry and PoetsQuotations by Paul Valery
A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.Politicians and PoliticsQuotations by Walter Bagehot
It doesn’t matter what I say as long as I sound different from other politicians.Politicians and PoliticsQuotations by Jerry Brown
Rome had Senators too, and that is why it declined.Politicians and PoliticsQuotations by Frank Dane
Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.Politicians and PoliticsQuotations by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.AbilityQuotations by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Katharine Hepburn
She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.Acting and ActorsQuotations by Dorothy Parker
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Northrop Frye
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Pauline Kael
Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Iris Murdoch
The perfection of art is to conceal art.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Edgar Quinet
What is Art? It is the response of man’s creative soul to the call of the Real.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Rabindranath Tagore
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.Arts and ArtistsQuotations by Robert Wilson
You create your opportunities by asking for them.AskQuotations by Patty Hansen
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.AssassinationQuotations by George Bernard Shaw
You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.AstrologyQuotations by Christopher Marlowe
During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.AtheismQuotations by Captain J. G. Stedman
You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.AttitudeQuotations by Dr. Jerome Brunner
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.AttitudeQuotations by Lena Horne
